Mud-guard for motor-vehicles.



v PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

C. SCHMIDT.

MUD GUARD FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.10, 1905.

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C. SCHMIDT.

MUD GUARD TOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED 111111.10, 1905.

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g1/wanton o t Cosco C- l l UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES SCHMIDT, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN,

MOTOR CAR COMPANY, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN,

OF WEST VIRGINIA.

AssrGNoR To PACKARD A OORPORATION MUD-GUARD FOR MOTOR-VEHICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 1906.

Application filed March 10, 1905. Serial No. 249,443.

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The invention will be described in connection with the accompanying drawings, in Which- 4 v Figure 1 is a side elevation of the forward part of a motor-vehicle, one of the front wheels being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the front of the vehicle. Fig. 3 is a side view of a flexible and detachable mud-guard; and Fig. 4 is a sec- Agon through the rigid guard on the line 4 4,

vReferring to the drawings, 10 indicates the body of the vehicle; 11, the seat; 12, the steering-handle; 13, the housing for the engine, which is usually laced in the front of the vehicle, and 14 the w eels. Over the wheels are relatively fixed rigid mud-guards 15, which are preferably permanently connected to the frame of the machine. When the vehicle is moving rapidly, fluid which strikes the mud-guardstends to move laterally toward the inner and outer edges ofthe guards and a considerable portion of the mud and water which is thrown against the end surfaces of the mud-guards is forced laterally by the air-pressure to the edges of the mudguards and is then caught by the wind and carried back into the vehicle. To Yprevent the mud and water from thus esca ing freely from the outer edges of the guar s, a vertical depending flange 16 is provided at the outer edge of each guard. This flange collects the mud and water and guides itv rearwardly and also gives it a tendency to drop instead of blowing out laterally.

Between the vehicle-body and the inner being sides of the mud-guards 15 I provide flexible guards 17, constructed of leather or other suitable light fabric. These flexible guards can be detached and stored away during dry weather, and in wet or muddy weather they can be readliy connected to the vehicle. They are'preferably united to the vehiclebody and to the xed mud-guards by buttons or lmobs 18, which engage buttonholes in the fabric. Any other suitable fastening devices may be employed.

The flexible mud-guards are preferably 'constructed-to conform at their outer edges to the fixed mud-guards and at their inner edges to the straight lines of the vehiclebody. The flexible guards when in use have therefore a warped surface, as indicated in igI`he flexible guards described cover the entire space between the fixed guards and the vehic e-body and effectually prevent any mud or water from being thrown into the vehicle or upon its Occupants, thus avoidin the great annoyance heretofore experience by automobile users in wet weather.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a motor-vehicle, the combination with the vehicle-body and the wheels, of the relatively fixed mud-guards extending over said wheels, and the flexible and detachable mud-guards extending between the fixed vmud-guards and the vehicle-body.

2. In a motor-vehicle, the combination with the vehiclebody and the wheels, ofthe relatively fixed mud-guards extending over the wheels, and the flexible mud-guards between the fixed mud-guards and the vehiclebody, the outer edges of said flexible guards the inner edges of'said flexible detachably connected witlhthe vehicle-body, for the purpose set forth.

3. In a. motor-vehicle, the combination with the vehicle-body and the vehicle-wheels, of the fixed mud-guards extending over the Wheels, and the warped. flexible 'mud-guards guards, and guards being detachably connected to the fixed.

between the fixed guards and the vehele- -In testimony whereof I 'have signed my body, the said exible guards being detaehname to this spee'caton in the presence of ably connected at their outer edges by suittwo subscribing Witnesses.

able fastenings with the fixed mud-guards CHARLES SCHMIDT.

find at their nneredges by suitable fasten- .Wtnessesz mgs with the vehicle-body, for the purpose RUSSELL HUFF,

set forth. MARK' C. TAYLOR. 

